middle class
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"The financial hardship is creeping up in America, particularly the middle class," said Symeria Hudson, the CEO of United Way Miami, a nonprofit fundraising organization.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
My research confirms the trend of rising inequality since 1980, driven by the wealthiest pulling away not just from the middle class, but also from the “merely wealthy.”
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026
Read more: Cars were once a financial engine of America’s middle class.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
While Western tourists had begun to come to Shangri-La decades earlier, the domestic tourist boom began after Covid-19-era lockdowns left China’s growing middle class grappling for a sense of escape and meaning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
You might imagine, from a comfortable distance, that people who live, year in and year out, on $6 to $10 an hour have discovered some survival stratagems unknown to the middle class.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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